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Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ?

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Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately, you can't do that with pure AppleScript since Apple does
> not provide AppleScript interfaces to change those properties. 

I've presumed that !...

> Here is
> what Apple allows (found in the System Events dictionary):
[snip...]
> responds to
>   start, stop.

... because I've found that

But I thought asking this question here, that I could have some answer
or some idea...

And you give me one !... 
Thanks a lot Jolly Roger ! :-)


> I had a look at these screen saver preference files:
> 
> ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver.plist
> ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.screensaver.5387F4CD-305A-54DE-B565-463
> EEBFCF270.plist

I've found these files... But I've found too the following file :
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.ScreenSaverPhotoChooser.5B50CA07-B35D-5045-9F15-A185809EFCF3.plist

which is the one where are stored the settings I was looking for...
(perhaps you havn't it because you never uses this sc saver ?)

Of course I tried to modify these settings and to save this file... but
it didnt work because the system dont read it again and when the Sc
Saver start it rewrites the file !...

I presumed I have to restart some process for reread the prefs. But I
didn't know which one.

But now you give me the missing piece of the puzzle :

> After making any change "under the hood" like this, you'd likely need to
> restart the cfprefsd daemon with this command to make the changes take
> effect:
> 
> # killall cfprefsd

And it works. 

Thanks again :-)

Now I have to fix my script to do that. But isn't it some problem with
restarting this daemon every hour ?


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[Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? blanc@empty.org (JiPaul) - 2015-09-25 09:45 +0200
  Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-25 15:30 +0000
    Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? blanc@empty.org (JiPaul) - 2015-09-25 19:49 +0200
      Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-25 18:37 +0000
        Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? blanc@empty.org (JiPaul) - 2015-09-26 00:06 +0200
          Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-25 22:47 +0000
            Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? blanc@empty.org (JiPaul) - 2015-10-07 09:56 +0200
              Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-07 16:20 +0000
                Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? blanc@empty.org (JiPaul) - 2015-10-07 21:15 +0200

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